The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-04-13
MAJOR BAeGs, COMPLAINT.
He is Surprised to Find That Hamlet is a
String of ''Chestnuts.

String of "Chestnuts.
"You funny men have had great deal to
say about chestnuts in connection with min
strel shows and circus performances" OBJ
served Major Bags to the Snake Editor.
"You are right, Major" replied the latter,
''the festive end-man and the bedizened
clown haze been criticised. as chestnut pur-
veyors must admit"
Gust SO. Well want you to drop the
circuses and Ministries, and give the legiti-
mate drama few whacks for the chestnuts
it is serving up now"
30, you are certainly mistaken, Major /;
there are no chestnuts in the legitimate
drama"
There are not, you say2 Well, you just
ought to see Hamlet played. Pd heard a
good deal about the beauty and power of
Shakspearean plays, and all that sort of
thing; so went to see Hamlet few nights
ago, and'blamed if it isn't string of chest
nuts from one end to the other'
"You surprise me- Major"
s"Yes; was surprised myself Why, one
Of the first remarks got off was, The air
bites shrewdly; it is very coldp Then an
other actor replied, 1T is nipping and an
eager ARP Now, sir, both those remarks are
chestnuts. I've heard them ever since was
child. You have heard them yourself, l
expect
The Snake Editor admitted that he had
heard both expressions before.
"Of course you have. Then in another
part one of the players says, iFrailty, thy
name is woman Now it's useless to at
tempt to palm that off on me as new. Why,
I've heard my father tell my mother that a
hundred times, in my youthful days. And
here they brought it out at the Opera House
in the legitimate drama"
eyes"
'"Then there was another expression, 1T is
more honored in the breach than in the OBJ
servance.' Perhaps you'll tell me that isn't
o chestnut"
1T has chestnutty air, I'll admit
IA chestnutty air. Why, man, 1t is en-
veloped in a chestnutty fog. Then the man
that took the ghost part ratified off:
81 am thy fathers spirit,
Doomed for certain term to walk the night.
But that am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
could tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young
blood;
Make thy two eyes, like stars. start from
their spheres;
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quilts upon the fretful porcupine.
''Why, if minstrel dared to venture on
anything as old as that, he'd be drowned
with the noise of chestnut bels.n
Perhaps"
Perhaps There's no perhaps about it.
Then another actor remarked, as saucy as
you please, %, my prophetic soul, my un-
cler"
HE was thinking of his pawnbroker,
probably
Don't know; but you'll admit the ex-
preston is rank chestnut
az believe it is somewhat old
'scs-ta'.,,.. = zE.----i-a
struck an attitude and recited long string
u stun enat Is more oil a chestnut than the
expression 'ratsl
w nat was thatY'
~ was this-you hayecertainly heard it.
ITO be, or not to be, that Is the question;
Nv nesner us nopler IN the mind to suffer
a.. y. .a,s anu arrows Oh outrageous fortune
And ~, ae soa Ui .roupies
No more and bS ! seen 70 60, ,aa ~ S'eep-
The heart-ache and the Thousand nat,,ra,
shocks
That flesh is heir tots a contamination
Devoutly to be wished. To die; to sleep;
~ sieeps perohance TO dream; ali, there's the
For i, 80. ~. u,o.
come 'p u 'oa'" "na' urea'''s may
When we have shuf,ied Off this morts, coil,
"And the rest If it-.vo,, H., !. :. ;,
20. YES. i've heard tho, f , m - ~ 40
~ should saw soI Wbv n NO. !, a. r;sh
Reader when went - scha@I Aua.ha ~.
chestnut was sOna NAV smile and s,,;la
and be n villain y ''e '''
yThat refers Won know 70 The te,dsncv
of villains To smile when thew have a chanos
They are not Prob;bition;sts as ! rn,s 'es'
aro h,t nhas ~, ,snt.;' ., : NC
chestnut. WHY Il l. as old - tbe hills y . :
every nearly Were there anv moro an